As the Games reach their midway point, the list of sporting achievements in Rio is growing, from a slew of world bests by the all-conquering USA swimmers to the performance of the first-ever refugee team at the Games, and successes in the velodrome dubbed a “world record factory” by organizers. Another weird theory concluded that the pool was Shrek’s water park.
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Clear-up efforts are also failing at the adjacent diving pool, which is a darker green and smelled like a “fart” on Friday, according to one diver. Mario Andrada, a spokesperson for 2016 Rio, told NBC Olympics this “radical measure” is needed to clear the water for judges and swimmers who spend much of their competition time underwater.
“We’re going to drain the water from the competition pool and we’re going to pump the water from the warm-up pool into the competition pool”, he added. Instead, they chose to drain the larger of the two pools and transfer 1 million gallons of water from a practice pool in time for the synchronized swimming event scheduled to begin on Sunday.
“It was 11 hours of work, and it’s fine”, he said.
The “embarrassing” emerald green water in the pools at the Rio aquatics centre that left some athletes with itchy eyes is the result of an unplanned dump of hydrogen peroxide into the water, Olympic organisers said on Saturday. “We learned painful lessons the hard way”. A day before, he attempted to explain trouble fixing the water by declaring that “chemistry is not an exact science”.
The International Olympic Committee is coming under massive cyber-attacks during the Rio Games, it has emerged.
On Saturday, the water in the diving pool was still a murky bottle-green color, while the water in the second pool, used for water polo and synchronized swimming, had begun to look a bit lighter and a bit bluer.
Rio de Janeiro – Olympics organisers said they would pump millions of litres of green water from a Rio pool after admitting defeat in attempts to get it back to blue.
“This was probably the only issue that we were unable to solve quickly”. “The embarrassment won’t last forever”.
One piece from the shattered platform washed up on the famous beach at Copacabana.
Twenty water polo games have been played at Maria Lenk since the water began to change.
Officials blamed the color of the water on “the proliferation of algae” caused by the heat and lack of wind.
“At the end of the day, yeah, the color of the pool may be different or the pH level is whatever it is, but it’s a pool”, US women’s captain Maggie Steffens said.
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“The reason why [this happened], we haven’t solved it. You’re anxious about playing the game”.
